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Originally Posted by Turbowned
1. Yeah, don't read or try anything on your own. You might hurt yourself. Or worse, you might actually learn something and then others would constantly ask you for your expertise. 
2. And if he gets bored or decides it's not for him he can sell it and get most of his money back.
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1. What's up with the passive aggressive (dig at me)? I've learned much in my life alone. However I've learned MUCH more with other people. In fact, we're on this forum, this community, because our synergy as a WHOLE outweighs our individual knowledge and skills. My mantra is "learning over knowing". I wasn't saying that one shouldn't ever do something themselves. But imagine how far backwards we would be as a society if everyone had to re-learn and re-read, and re-understand how EVERYTHING in their lives worked?
2. You focus on money, I focus on time. Time is worth FAR more than money. If his time is well spent fixing up his beater, sure, great. There is one thing you cannot, flat out, get back at the end of the day, and that is time.
We don't have much of that on this Earth. Refer:
[ame]http://youtu.be/BOksW_NabEk[/ame]
On a tangential note, one of the single most important perspectives for an entrepreneur is to 'accept what you do not know- do not try and understand.. just accept. And then find someone or some organization to fill the void in your understanding so that you can focus on what YOU are most happy/best at doing"
While these cars are "significantly more complex" these days, the 86 platform in general is very thoughtfully laid out and, while electronics have came a long way, a combustion engine's conceptual operation carries over through different platforms. It's an NA motor with Port and DI. Not complicated.